Cleveland seems to have tried in this piece to equal the mystery of the title of 'Smec' by his own matter, and to have succeeded very fairly.] [Line: 54 _1677_, &c. '_shall_ be'. 'at th'' _1647_, _1677_: 'at the' _1651_, _1653_.] [Line: 55 cooped] cooked _1647_, _1651_.] [Line: 56 _1677_, &c. '_the_ name'.] [Line: 57 An absurd, but doubtless in the circumstances dangerous, document of the kind was actually disseminated, in which the prentices bold engaged 'to defend his Sacred Majesty against Popish innovations such as archbishops and bishops appear to be'.] [Line: 63 carrot-bunch] Cant for 'fingers'.] [Line: 70 'pay' _1653_, _1677_: 'pays' _1647_, _1651_. _1677_ '_and_ use'.] [Line: 75 'Banns' _1677_: 'Banes' in earlier texts. _1653_ 'time'.] [Line: 78 The Convocation which had been guilty of '&c.', and the Commons who mostly sympathized with 'Smec'.] [Line: 79 foxes' tails] As at Samson's marriage (Judges xv. 4-7.)] [Line: 80 Mosel[e]y, Milton's printer; and Sancta Clara, the Jesuit?] [Line: 82 _1677_ 'plurality'.] [Line: 83 'Vestry, but' _1677_: 'Vestery' _1647_, _1651_, _1653_.] [Line: 84 _1677_ 'Bets'.] [Line: 90 The heraldic terms are pretty plain, but _1677_ reads 'is spade' i.e. 'spayed', as in _The Hecatomb to his Mistress_, l. 2.] [Line: 94 Rhyme here really badly managed.] [Line: 95 _1677_ 'another's'.] [Line: 97 The fear and dislike of Henrietta Maria (whom Mr. Berdan supposes to be meant) among the disaffected is only too certain: and the fate of Prynne's ears for his scandal of her is notorious. But why _at this time_ she should be called a Queen Mother (it was her proper title afterwards, and she was one of the very few to whom it was actually given), and what the last line means, I know not. Nor does Professor Firth, unless Marie de Médicis (who _was_ Queen Mother in France and had visited England) had, as he suggests, a share in some leather patent, and is meant here. Smec's ears are 'vellum' in _Rupertismus_, 169 (_v. inf._, p. 67).] The Mixed Assembly.